Qawekazi Maqabuka

Ms Qawekazi Maqabuka

Researcher

Qawekazi Maqabuka is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Western Cape. She was previously based in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nelson Mandela University (NMU). She is completing her PhD at NMU on healthcare justice, communicative injustice, and health policy failure. An award-winning lecturer, she received the Emerging Excellent Teacher of the Year award of both the Faculty of Humanities and Nelson Mandela University in 2020. Her areas of research and teaching include care work, the sociology of health and labour studies

 

Publications

Selected Publications in Journals and Edited Books

  • Co-editor with C. Van der Westhuizen, Q. Maqabuka, N. Mkhize, B. Magoqwana and G, Holtzman “Making visible the invisible: Institutional Cultures in South African Higher Education.” SunMedia and Nelson Mandela University Press.  (Fourthcoming 2025)

Book chapter

  • Q, Maqabuka, N, Mkhize, B, Magoqwana. ‘Designed to be unequal: Institutional Differentiation and the entrenchment Educational Inequality in post-apartheid university system”. In Making visible the invisible: Institutional Cultures in South African Higher Education. (Eds) by with C. Van der Westhuizen, Q. Maqabuka, N. Mkhize, B. Magoqwana and G, Holtzman. (2024) (forthcoming)

Conferences, Talks and Presentations

  • Bearing Witness to Neglect: Life Esidimeni and the Broken Promise of Care. Paper presented as part of the panel "New Wars, Old Scars: Fighting for Health Equity in a Hostile World" at the Faculty of Health Sciences Learning and Teaching Colloquium, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha.July 2025
  • Presented at the Indexing Transformation Series “Imini ekwancanywa ngayo”: The Ethics of Indignity   and the Broken Promise of Care.” –Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, 9 October 2025.